Editing May Sinclair (section)

{{Short description|English writer and suffragist (1863–1946)}}
{{similar names|Mary Sinclair (disambiguation)}}
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{{Use British English|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox writer
| name        = May Sinclair
| image       = May Sinclair 001.jpg
| caption     = May Sinclair c. 1912
| birth_name  = Mary Amelia St. Clair
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1863|8|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Rock Ferry]], [[Cheshire]], England
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1946|11|14|1863|8|24|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Bierton]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England
| nationality = British
| occupation  = Novelist and poet
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}}
'''May Sinclair''' was the [[pseudonym]] of '''Mary Amelia St. Clair''' (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry.<ref>[http://www.bookrags.com/May_Sinclair Bookrags biography]</ref> She was an active [[suffragist]], and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel [[Jane Austen]] for a suffrage fundraising event.<ref> {{Cite book|last=Looser|first=Devoney|title=The Making of Jane Austen|location=Baltimore, MD|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2017|page=174|isbn=978-1421422824}}</ref> Sinclair was also a significant critic in the area of [[modernist poetry]] and [[modernist literature|prose]], and she is attributed with first using the term [[stream of consciousness (narrative mode)|'stream of consciousness']] in a literary context, when reviewing the first volumes of [[Dorothy Richardson]]'s [[novel sequence]] ''[[Pilgrimage (novel sequence)|Pilgrimage]]'' (1915–1967), in ''The Egoist'', April 1918.